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UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre

Building capacity to support decision-

making for protection and management of

marine areas

UNICPOLOS, June 2010, New York

Credit: John Weller, [email protected] Credit: Robert L. Pitman (NOAA)

Credit: Sarah Gotheil, IUCN

Credit_Deep Atlantic Stepping Stones Science Team_IFE_URI_NOAA_no3

Credit: Imène Meliane, IUCN Photo Library Credit: John Weller, [email protected] Credit: John Weller, [email protected]

Credit: John Weller, [email protected]: John Weller, [email protected]: John Weller, [email protected]

Colleen M. Corrigan

Senior Programme Officer

Protected Areas Programme

United Nations Environment Programme- World Conservation Monitoring Centre


Overview

Background: mandate, needs, audience

Example: Pacific basin mapping

Next steps: further tool development, workshops

(regional)

CBD Scientific Criteria:

Ecologically and Biologically Significant Areas (EBSA)

Uniqueness or rarity

Special importance for life history of species

Importance for threatened, endangered or declining species and/or

habitats

Vulnerability, fragility, sensitivity, slow recovery

Biological productivity

Biological diversity

Naturalness

Capacity Building

31. Requests series of regional workshops to facilitate the identification of ecologically

or biologically significant marine areas using the scientific criteria (D IX/20) to facilitate

capacity-building of developing country Parties, in particular the least developed

countries and small island developing States among them, as well as countries with

economies in transition, as well as relevant regional initiatives…. share experiences related to integrated management of marine resources and the implementation of marine and

coastal spatial planning instruments;

33. Requests the Executive Secretary to prepare, in collaboration with the relevant international

organizations, a training manual and modules to be used to meet capacity-building

needs for identifying EBSAs

37. Invites Parties and other Governments to foster research and monitoring activities

to improve information on key processes and influences on the marine and coastal

ecosystems which are critical for structure, function and productivity of biological diversity in

areas where knowledge is scarce and to facilitate the systematic collection of

relevant information in order to continue a proper monitoring of these vulnerable areas;


In-depth Review of the Implementation of the Programme of Work on Marine and

Coastal Biological Diversity

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/14/L.8

14 May 2010

EBSA Illustrations &

GOBI Website

(www.gobi.org)

Credit: Pat Halpin, MGEL

1. Uniqueness or rarity2. Special importance

for life history of species

Saya de Malha BanksCredit: Marjo Vierros, UNU/IAS

Northern Elephant SealsCredit: Autumn-Lynn Harrison, UCSC/TOPP

Individual Criteria

Adapted from Jeff Ardron

6. Biological Diversity4. Vulnerability, Fragility,

sensitivity, slow recovery

Reef forming cold-water coralsCredit: Andrew Davies, Bangor University; John Guinotte, Jeff

Ardron, MCBI

Biodiversity Indices on aggregated species

occurrence datasetsCredit: E. Vanden Berghe, OBIS

CBD Mandates for Interactive Map

COP9 (Decision 20, Paragraph 5)

● review of spatial databases regarding ABNJ

● development of an Interactive Map (IMap) prepared in collaboration UNEP-WCMC

COP8 (Decision 24, Paragraph 44 (c))

● promote wide use of the Interactive Map (IMap)

● integration into the World Database on Protected Areas

● update relevant information, incorporating ecosystem functions and connectivity, threats and habitats

in the water column

● linkages with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and other relevant

organizations, as appropriate.


• Interactive map

• Relevant organizations (e.g. IMO, FAO)

• Ecosystem, connectivity, threats, habitats


Development of an Interactive Map

What?Interactive compilation of spatial databases on areas beyond national jurisdiction Pilot viewer: 37 data layers (species,

static habitat features, dynamic elements, mgnt boundaries)

Over 80 data sources identified

1. Story-telling

2. Explore and query data to support decisions

Key Considerations

Who? Policy-makers

National governments

Regional organizations

Science, research

Marine planners

Private sector

Scale Global, regional, sub-regional

Consistent with implementation

Incorporates connectivity

Integration of science/knowledge across large area


Data

Knowledge

Information

Decisions

Functionality

Access best available datasets

Explore available data at multiple scales

Query data in relation to EBSA illustrations

User feedback capability

General comments

Provision of new data to support/refute

Proposal of potential EBSAs

Submit data and narrative


Accessing Global Data


Global marine species distribution Global islands

Global protected areas

Global habitats

Multi-dimensional Space


From Global Open Ocean and Deep Seabed (GOODS) Biogeographic Classification, UNESCO 2009

Pelagic Benthic

Creating the Best Tools


Printed training manuals/toolkits

Online training modules

Mentor/learning exchanges

Hands-on workshops

Technical training courses

Others

Regional Application, e.g. Pacific

• largest in the world

• covers 1/3 of the surface

• incredible range of biodiversity

• 3 largest marine protected areas

• 3 billion people


Regional Application:Connecting protective measures across scales


From Partridge, Greenpeace, 2009

Country-initiated protection efforts Large-scale Protected Areas

Expanding Regional Fisheries Management

From SPRFMO

Possible indicators


Highly Migratory Species

Static Biological Knowledge:


(n=127)_

Pacific Threatened Species Density (EBSA criteria 3,6)

Adding fixed habitats(EBSA criteria 2,4)

Dynamic biological knowledge:


June December

Net primary productivity(EBSA criteria 5)

Adding political context:


Management boundaries (EEZs, RFMOs)

Multiple Layers:


Species, human traditional voyages, threats (EBSA criteria 7)

Data from Birdlife International

What We Need to Make this Happen

Input from policy,

science, partners

Best available data to

make best decisions

Political support and

leadership from nations

and regions

Funding/resources for

workshops, mapping,

tool development,

capacity-building



Thank You!

Email: [email protected]

Major Partners/Donors:

Defra (UK)

French Marine Protected Areas Agency

IUCN Global Marine Programme

World Commission on Protected Areas –Marine

German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN)

Aquamaps

Birdlife International

mailto:[email protected]



http://censeam.niwa.co.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/60986/blobfish.pdf

Discussion Questions

1. What capacities are needed for effective ecosystem-based

management in coastal areas? And for open ocean areas? How do

these capacity needs vary for different countries?

2. What are the greatest priorities and in which regions?

3. How can GOBI, TNC and other organizations/initiatives respond to

these needs and provide support for increased capacities?

4. How can participants benefit from the ideas and potential future

developments that have been presented?


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